Class Objectives 2/5 Review previous homework (112,113,114,115,116) Assignment for the past perfect tense Lecture on past perfect continuous tense Assignment for the past perfect continuous Review study guide

REVIEW Past Perfect Tense When do we use the Past Perfect? When 2 or more things happened in the past and we want to explain which of them happened first in the past. * When we arrived at the airport, the flight had already left. What ever happened first is where we use the past perfect tense.

Forms (subject) + (helping verb) + (main verb in the p.p) Positive Statements I had finished. You had started. We had left. They had eaten. He had brought. She had broken. It had rung.

Forms (subject)+(helping verb)+(not)+(main verb in the p.p) Negative Statements I had not finished. You had not finished. We had not finished. They had not finished. He had not finished. She had not finished. It had not finished.

Forms (Helping verb)+(subject)+(main verb/pp) Questions Had I finished? Had you finished? Had we finished? Had they finished? Had he finished? Had she finished? Had it finished?

Your Turn 1. Get into your groups 2. Ask each person 2 things they did before they started college 3. You have 3 minutes!!! Example: M/V: What had you done before you started college? F/V: I had had a full-time job. M/V: What else had you done before college? F/V: I had visited Peru.

Tell me about the person you interviewed. Example: M/V: What had you done before college? F/V: I had had a full-time job. M/V: What else had you done before college? F/V: I had visited Peru. When she started college, she had already visited Peru. She had already had a full-time job, when she started college.

How do we make the Past Perfect Continuous Tense? The structure of the past perfect continuous tense is: Subject ( + ) auxiliary verb HAVE ( + ) auxiliary verb BE ( + ) main verb He/She/It/I/We/ You/They conjugated in simple past tense past participle present participle had been base + ing

Past Perfect Continuous Tense We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. The duration of the continuous action is expressed with for USE #1 Duration Before Something in the Past

Past Perfect Continuous Tense Examples: 1) They had been talking for over an hour when Scott arrived. 2) She had been working at that factory for three years when it went out of business. 3) How long had you been waiting to get on the train? 4) Scott wanted to sit down because he had been standing all day at work. 5) A: How long had you been studying English when you moved to America? B: I had not been studying English very long.

Use 1: Duration of a Past Action The main use of the Past Perfect Continuous is to express actions or situations that were in progress before some other actions or situations. The boys had been sleeping for half an hour when we arrived home. I had been dating Michelle for 3 years before we got married.

Use 2: Showing Cause Use the Past Perfect Continuous to show cause of an action or situation in the past. * John was in detention because he had been misbehaving. * The road was wet because it had been raining. * I had to go on a diet because I had been eating too much sugar. * Jessica got tired because she had been lying in the sun too long.

Your Turn 1) Get into your groups and ask each other these questions. You have 3 minutes! A) Tell me something you did before you turned 15? B) Tell me something you did before you went to school today? **Now write sentences that explain what you have learned from the people you interviewed. Use the past perfect continuous and the simple past.